We are telling the World about Poland
22.01.2023
We are sharing articles, commemorating to the 160th anniversary of the January Uprising, prepared by the Institute of New Media as part of the campaign "We are telling the World about Poland".
1. Karol Nawrocki, President of the National Remembrance Institute.
Polish Relay for Freedom
Poles have always refused to their fate being decided by others. The nineteenth-century January Uprising – a heroic guerrilla war against the Russian occupier – fits in this attitude.
2. Professor Andrzej NOWAK, Historian, Sovietologist and member of the National Development Council. Lecturer at the Jagiellonian University. Full Professor at the Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Winner of the Lech Kaczyński Award, Chevalier of the Order of the White Eagle.
Poles, Ukrainians, Lithuanians and Belarusians do not bow their heads
2023 marks the 160th anniversary of the January Uprising. Despite the passage of years, the echoes of this uprising are still present in public debate. An important, albeit challenging, question ‘to fight (for one’s country’s freedom) or not to fight?’ is still being asked in Central Europe.
3. Artur SZKLENER, Director of the Fryderyk Chopin Institute.
Frederic Chopin - poet of Polish freedom
One hundred sixty years ago, in September 1863, during the January Uprising, the Russians demolished the Zamoyski Palace in Warsaw, throwing the piano once played by Fryderyk Chopin out of the building’s window. The moment made history.
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Polish Relay for FreedomK_Nawrocki_ENG.pdf 0.46MB Poles, Ukrainians, Lithuanians and Belarusians do not bow their heads
A_Nowak_ENG.pdf 0.28MB Frederic Chopin - poet of Polish freedom
A_Szklener_ENG.pdf 0.28MB
